Green Island ticket policy questioned

Q: I have lived in Green Island for 10 years and have parked in the same parking spot practically every night. Many of the parking spots in the village are at “yellow curbs” but the residents are not given tickets. I was given a ticket on Hudson Avenue near the Municipal Center but the individuals parking at yellow curbs on George Street near the Municipal Center were not ticketed.

Does the “yellow curb violation” only apply on Hudson Avenue? Why is this violation not enforced on George Street?

“At the time the tickets were issued in that area, any cars that were in violation were ticketed on Hudson Ave or George Street,” he said. “It is possible that after the officer issued the parking tickets, vehicles parked in the no parking area.”

He said there should be no need to park n those spaces.

“There is plenty of parking in that area with the municipal parking lot being across the street,” Parker said.

Of course, he notes, anyone who gets a ticket has the right to plead not guilty to the ticket if they feel that it was wrongly issued. The process for doing so is stated on the ticket.

3 Responses

I’m willing to bet that the police chief is lying. He knows the others weren’t ticketed, or else he would have stated some estimation as to how many vehicles were issued tickets. The resident obviously checked out other cars that day and would have been able to call him out on it. The whole dept in Green Island is a joke.

People park in the yellow ALL THE TIME!!!! This makes it very difficult to see at the intersections. No one gets a ticket. I got one a few years ago because I parked in the yellow during my daughter’s Moving up ceremony at school. The Officers could have gone into the school and ask people to move their cars, which would have been the nice thing to do, but our Mayor, who lives around there, wanted everyone ticketed.
I still see cars parked in the yellow, especially damaged vehicles around the Baseball field. I guess it’s who you know…